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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian : Mobile Phones in Japanese Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (373 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262256414
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Personal, Portable, PedestrianDDC classification:
  • 306.46
LOC classification:
  • HN727.P47 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Note on Translation -- Introduction -- 1 Discourses of Keitai in Japan -- 2 Youth Culture and the Shaping of Japanese Mobile Media -- 3 A Decade in the Development of Mobile Communications in Japan (1993-2002) -- 4 The Third-Stage Paradigm -- 5 Japanese Youth and the Imagining of Keitai -- 6 Mobile Communication and Selective Sociality -- 7 The Mobile-izing Japanese -- 8 Accelerating Reflexivity -- 9 Keitai and the Intimate Stranger -- 10 Keitai in Public Transportation -- 11 The Gendered Use of Keitai in Domestic Contexts -- 12 Design of Keitai Technology and Its Use among Service Engineers -- 13 Technosocial Situations -- 14 Keitai Use among Japanese Elementary and Junior High School Students -- 15 Uses and Possibilities of the Keitai Camera -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: How mobile communications in Japan became a pervasively personal tool that connects families and friends, creating "always-on" social engagement.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Note on Translation -- Introduction -- 1 Discourses of Keitai in Japan -- 2 Youth Culture and the Shaping of Japanese Mobile Media -- 3 A Decade in the Development of Mobile Communications in Japan (1993-2002) -- 4 The Third-Stage Paradigm -- 5 Japanese Youth and the Imagining of Keitai -- 6 Mobile Communication and Selective Sociality -- 7 The Mobile-izing Japanese -- 8 Accelerating Reflexivity -- 9 Keitai and the Intimate Stranger -- 10 Keitai in Public Transportation -- 11 The Gendered Use of Keitai in Domestic Contexts -- 12 Design of Keitai Technology and Its Use among Service Engineers -- 13 Technosocial Situations -- 14 Keitai Use among Japanese Elementary and Junior High School Students -- 15 Uses and Possibilities of the Keitai Camera -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

How mobile communications in Japan became a pervasively personal tool that connects families and friends, creating "always-on" social engagement.

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